A few days ago
bob_7_5

Need clarification on what this means?

we have to read “I know why the caged bird sings” by Maya Angelou for our summer reading and the assignment is writing paper on it, topic is “focus on the idea of human rights as an antithesis to the major themes in the memoir, including racism and segregation.” what does that mean? am i suppose to write about why segregation is bad or good?

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A few days ago
historian

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“Antithesis” is just a fancy word for “opposite.” The instructions are saying that the work is about racism and segregation, and that your paper should discuss the differences between the problems the author wrote about and the ideal of human rights.
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